Ruth / Question
Boaz told the elders and all the people that he had bought from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon. He also stated that he had acquired Ruth the Moabite as his wife to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance. The announcement is in Ruth 4:9–10.
At the town gate, Boaz publicly declares that he has completed a purchase from Naomi: the whole property connected to Elimelech and his sons. He then adds that the transaction also includes taking Ruth, Mahlon’s widow, as his wife. These verses sit in the story’s closing legal scene, where Naomi’s future and Ruth’s place in Bethlehem are settled in public. Just before this, the nearer relative declines to act, and Boaz steps forward in front of elders at the gate, the town’s decision-making space (Ruth.4.1-Ruth.4.8).
Boaz makes a public, witnessed announcement at the town gate. He states as a completed fact that he has acquired the full property interest connected to Elimelech and his two sons, and he links that acquisition with taking Ruth (identified as a Moabite and as Mahlon’s widow) as his wife.
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with Ruth 4:9-10, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
9Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech`s, and all that was Chilion`s and Mahlon`s, of the hand of Naomi.
10Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place: you are witnesses this day.